[Dixielandjazz] Okeh laughing record

[Dick Baker]

Anton, presumably you meant Lucie Bernardo rather than Bernado.  But 
while I was at YouTube listening to the Spike Jones version, I 
spotted a link that led to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-tjzpwRDo&feature=related

which identifies Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt as the 
performers.  That recording sounds to me like the Okeh record--but it 
would, I suppose, if Valentin & Karlstadt were trying to copy 
Bernardo & Rathke.

At 12:00 PM 9/9/2011, Anton Crouch wrote:
>Spike Jones' recording comes from a different tradition - laughing 
>AT a performance. Steve Porter's/Laughing Spectator/  (1908) is an 
>early example but the prototype is/The Okeh Laughing Record/  (Okeh 
>4678-A, released c. August 1922). In this, a cornet player is 
>interrupted by a woman laughing and soon the cornet player stops and 
>joins in the laughter. The record finishes with both performers in 
>paroxysms of laughter. Numerous cover versions followed, and one 
>(/Button Buster/, Grey Gull 7010, Sep 1922) uses a trombone (playing 
>the quartet from Verdi's/Rigoletto/  + female laughter. Did Spike 
>Jones know this record?
>
>An interesting discographical aside is that Okeh 4678 does not 
>appear in Ross Laird and Brian Rust's/Discography of Okeh Records, 
>1918-1934/, Praeger, 2004. The reason is simple - the recording was 
>not made by Okeh. It was made in Berlin on 8 June 1920 by Otto 
>Rathke, cornet&  Lucie Bernado, vocal and issued on Beka 5306. One 
>can only wonder how Okeh came to issue it domestically 2 years 
>later. And who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour?  :-)

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